Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!PEDEV!rogerson From: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (rogerson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Using XMS driver (HIMEM) & VDISK??? Message-ID: <2334@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: 5 Jan 89 21:03:25 GMT References: <499@igor.Rational.COM> <6478@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3173@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> <1586@micomvax.UUCP> Reply-To: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM () Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC Lines: 10 Isn't Windows an attempt to isolate the application programer from the hardware? You do not have to worry about WHICH card a system has, but only the resolution. You also did not have to worry about many other hardware comptiblity problems. Windows programs run just fine on a Tandy 2000 which IS ONLY MSDOS compatible and it not PC compatible! -----Dale Rogerson-----